437 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 - Part 1 - Book 37 - Unsearchable Riches Of Christ

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 37 Unsearchable Riches of Christ So we’re just going to keep on teaching the Book and hope others also can come out of their works religion, and come into the knowledge and freedom of God’s wonderful GRACE! Now we’re ready to start our study for today, and that would be in verse 8, we find Paul telling us Gentiles about God’s Grace. Ephesians 3:8 "Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;" Gentiles. Well, the Jewish people. These Jews thought that Christ was an impostor, and they certainly thought that Paul was, and so they were doing everything they could to disrupt his ministry. Archaeologists confirm that a good number of early Church believers were Jews. When I read this verse I have to think of an old time Bible teacher, William R. Newell. "...that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ:" What are the unsearchable riches of Christ? You see this was all blueprinted way back there in eternity past, and became part of the "unsearchable riches of Christ." The Creator God Himself! Now that’s all part of the "unsearchable riches of Christ." Now listen that’s all part of these "unsearchable riches of Christ." Listen, morality in America is still head and shoulders above the rest of the world. Now let’s go on a little further to what Paul has been teaching here in Ephesians, and that is that the moment we believe God does something else that’s beyond human understanding.He places us into the Body of Christ in which we all become members around the world. This invisible, and yet visible consortium of believers, and we are all made one with Christ. Hey that’s beyond human understanding, but again that’s all part of the "unsearchable riches of Christ." Well we can’t begin to comprehend it. Oh again it’s all part of the "unsearchable riches of Christ." I’ve had so many calls in the past couple of weeks from people who fell into sin. Being able to do anything is not the unsearchable riches of Christ. My Bible does not tell us that just because the Grace of God abounds, I can go out and do an immoral thing, and God’s going to wink at it. Romans 3:23-24 "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (that’s everyone of us. 24. Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:" When I teach Romans chapter 3 I always use the analogy of the Roman slave market, and I think it’s a very appropriate one, because it was very real. As the Romans would go out with their legions and they would conquer other people they would bring back, especially the younger people who were capable of slave duty, to Rome and they would end up in the slave market. Say a benevolent slave owner would buy a slave and clean him up, give him a whole new set of clothes, give him light duty around his estate of trimming the lawns and so forth, and remember the Romans lived sumptuously. So here’s this young slave who’s been bought out of that horrible situation, and given this beautiful place to work, and have all the best food. I have bought your citizenship. Now the analogy I’ve always used before is, "What’s this young man going to say? ‘What if this same young man would say, "I want to stay right here and serve you, but once a week can I go back into the slave market?" We all fail, we all sin, but to go back into gross sin, and just glibly say, "Oh well, I’m saved and don’t have anything to worry about." When a true believer sins, they’re going to be convicted as David was. And when David saw his sin, what does the Book of Psalms say he does? Well all of this I just sort of lob into the "Unsearchable Riches of Christ." It’s beyond human comprehension. Just like Paul says in I Corinthians chapter 2. What God has in store for us is going to be a million times better than the things you and I like to do down here, and it’s all because of the "unsearchable riches of Christ." We don’t have to go into some prescribed place, at a prescribed time or God won’t hear us. Totally new, totally different, a changed appetite, a changed lifestyle. So many times husbands who have wives who are lost will ask, "Well what can I do to convince my wife that she needs God’s saving Grace." Or wives will call or write, "What can I do to convince my husband that he needs God’s saving Grace?" It may take 6 months or a year or years, but you can rest assured that when you’ve done what God expects you to do, then that lost person is going to be faced with the reality of the love of God. And that’s all part of the "unsearchable riches of Christ." #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible